Aliment
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ˈalɪmənt/
Origin
From French aliment, and its source, Latin alimentum ("food").
Full definition of aliment
Noun
aliment
(plural aliments)- (now rare) Food.
- (figuratively) Nourishment, sustenance.
- Francis Baconaliments of their sloth and weakness
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 356:All this monotony might be a good aliment for a poet but what if one had no gifts?
- (Scotland) An allowance for maintenance.
Verb
- (obsolete) To feed, nourish.
- To sustain, support.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 434:Yet there would also be many – and not simply the powerful and ultra-privileged – who lost out, and whose discontent operated as a kind of political yeast, alimenting ‘unpatriotic’ thoughts and acts.